Zanu PF women fighting over political power already lost

Zanu PF Women League conference has finally started and the cat-fight for positions will decide the winners and losers. In the past, the winners were assured of political power, not so this time. Zanu PF's continued stay in power will be decided on whether or not the regime fill the ZimAsset begging bowl necessary to stop the economic meltdown.

After a year of frantic begging to fill the ZimAsset begging bowl and failing to get even a dollar these Zanu PF women should have realised by now that Zanu PF's hold on power was shaky, to say the least, and thus their own fight for power therefore meaningless.

Mugabe and Zanu PF bamboozled Tsvangirai and his MDC friends into doing nothing about the democratic reforms, how anyone could have been outwitted for five long years is itself a measure of just how breathtakingly incompetent MDC leaders are. When Mugabe blatantly rigged the July 2013 elections because no reforms had been implemented; the tyrant thought it was going to be plain sailing from there on, nothing of the sort. Mugabe faced his greatest challenge yet - the economy – and one impossible to cheat.

34 years of gross mismanagement, rampant corruption and an all-out looting spree in the last 15 years have all taken their toll on the Zimbabwe economy. If the economy was a horse then it would be skin and bones. It is so weak it cannot even get up much less carry the mountain of weight piled on its back.

The rigged elections confirmed Mugabe and Zanu PF were back in office and instead of the mountain of load being taken off the horse's back, it will be increased. It was going to be business as usual; the gross mismanagement, the rampant corruption, etc. were to pick up were these had left off when the GNU was form in 2009 when some sanity had prevailed. The local players gave up and donors and foreign investors too decided to avoid Zimbabwe as if it was a Biblical lepers' colony. The national economy has responded by taking a dangerous nose dive since the 31 July 2013 rigged elections.

The economic meltdown has thrown millions into new depths of economic suffering and despair. This cannot go on for much longer, the people's patience has been tested to its limit.

For 34 years Mugabe has rigged elections and bamboozled his political opponents to avoid regime change but now it is the empty ZimAsset begging bowl that is going to force him to finally accept regime change.

Sometimes it is the simplest things, the ones that one least expected, that trips the seasoned fighter. Chidya matovo akazodzipwa nedovo remhuru! So says the Shona adage. (The dog renowned for chewing through the toughest hides will choke on a calf's hide!)

Mugabe, kariga n'ombe azorigwa nedemhe! (Mugabe the renowned bull wrestler has been floored by the begging bowl!)

Mugabe's reign of corruption and terror is over and the decades of economic misrule have come back to haunt him out of State House.

All the scheming and back stubbing by Zanu PF Women League members will come to naught because the economic meltdown is already forcing the party of power. So these women are fighting over political power, something the party has already lost!